Accidentally Heated Ready Meal On Defrost

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I are the chicken jalfrezi last night around 9.30 & feel fine so far. It had been in the fridge defrosting but just seemed a tiny bit icy still so I heated it on defrost. Unfortunately, I forgot to change the setting (only realised this morning when DH was doing his porridge) so it was done completely on defrost. I did heat it up again a little bit & it was certainly piping hot when I first took it out.
Would I have been ill by now if it was going to happen?

You heated it up properly after realising so you'll be fine.

P .S It had been defrosting in the fridge since Wed night

was it warm enough?

If you heated it up properly (you said it was piping hot) I don’t think it matters, even if it had still been a bit frozen after defrosting in the fridge for a day or so.
Piping hot is the important bit.

These things usually kick in after 12 hours. I’d cancel and plans and get myself to A&E now just in case. You can never she too safe.

All defrost does is lower the microwaves so they are not on 100% power all of the time. If the food was piping hot then it was cooked.

It’s a real concern that I can’t work out if you are being serious or sarcastic. MN is full of madness these days so either one could apply.

Exactly. And the fact that the OP is asking such a ridiculous question means that she's likely to take this suggestion seriously.

OP, your food was hot, not that it would likely have made you ill if it hadn't been.

According to MN, I should have food poisoning pretty much constantly, given that almost everything I eat has been sitting at room temperature for a few hours (because I don't eat fridge cold food and my daily work lunch sits on the shelf in my office), I eat reheated rice that's been sitting in the microwave overnight, I sometimes refreeze raw meat, eat fresh food that's a day or two past the use by date, dairy products that are weeks past etc etc.

Yet I can tell you that I've had food poisoning exactly twice in the last 35 years. Once due to a prawn sandwich from the work canteen two weeks into a new job and the second about 15 years ago due to breakfast I had at the airport before a holiday where I spent half the week in bed with stomach ache, but didn't actually throw up that much.

@Bjorkdidit I have very bad anxiety so to me, it wasn’t a ridiculous question. I really wish I didn’t worry so much about stuff like this 😢

If it was piping hot through when you ate it it’s fine.
Food poisoning usually starts quite quickly, definitely within 24h

It was piping hot. You will be fine. Ignore the atrocious cunt above.